US Patent Issued to Snap on Dec. 2 for "Context-based virtual object rendering" (California Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,488,548, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to Snap Inc. (Santa Monica, Calif.).

"Context-based virtual object rendering" was invented by Kyle Goodrich (Venice, Calif.), Samuel Edward Hare (Los Angeles), Maxim Maximov Lazarov (Culver City, Calif.), Tony Mathew (Los Angeles), Andrew James McPhee (Culver City, Calif.), Daniel Moreno (Los Angeles) and Wentao Shang (Los Angeles).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program and a method for rendering a virtual object in a real-world environment depicted in image content based on contextua...